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Tuesday, December 9, 2014

A VISIT TO AMELIA ISLAND: PRIMERA PARTE

Gentle Readers . . . and Maxwell,

Carol and I spent Saturday enjoying the Eighth Annual Amelia Island Museum of History Holiday Home Tour. We were allowed to tour all or part of five beautiful homes in Fernandina's Historic District. Each had been decorated for Christmas by a different florist on the island.

Here's Carol at the beginning of the tour:

Here's Carol at the end of the tour:

Here I am in front of one of the houses at the beginning of the tour:

Here I am at the end of the tour:

Gawd, I am beautiful. Sorry, Carol.

The day began with a heavy fog, but as we toured, the sun came out. The temperature was in the low eighties.

I hope that tomorrow I'll have time to tell you a bit about the houses, but we have to start with the really important part of the day. We met three puppies who are in training to be service dogs. I didn't take photos of them because it might have distracted them. They were so good in spite of everything around them. Two were Golden Retrievers who will help autistic children.

As we admired the puppies in training, along came the Parade of Paws, which consisted of about forty dogs in Christmas attire who hauled along their people in a fundraiser for the Nassau County Humane Society. We were in the right place at the right time. The dogs were a hoot, and they all looked so happy to show off their wags.

The tour included free trolleys to take us from one house to the next, but they weren't around much. Most of the time we walked. Carol and I began the tour at about ten and finished at three-thirty. Carol had already picked out a lunch spot, and this is what we looked like before we headed home to Jacksonville:

I'm not sure which of us is which, but this is another shot of us:

Now, sadly, I must scold you. More of you need to sign up for the Favorite Christmas Memories Bloghop that Cherdo and I will host on Monday, December 22nd. I'm not interested in excuses. Get your rears in gear.

Okay, I've already linked up! (Farm Christmas)...you girls look exhausted (at least the pictures you posted look like you were exhausted). I was awake half of the night trying to get my file cabinet in my brain to remember Christmases from the past!

A very funny post, JJ! Especially the "Gawd, I'm beautiful bit!" I'm making no promises about the blog hop. We'll see how it goes. I really liked your Pearl Harbor post. It's important to remember our past and the sacrifices that others have made for us. Have a good evening!

This tour needs a catchier name. "Eighth Annual Amelia Island Museum of History Holiday Home Tour" is a bit of a mouthful. At the very least they should switch to Roman numerals. Forget the actual tour, I got exhausted just reading the name of the tour. I'm saying it's a long name. Also, thank you for the picture of the wiener dogs. Though in person, they are often mean little buggers, they are so delightfully odd.

Thank you thank you thank you for making me laugh so my daughters could look at me like there is something wrong with me and I was laughing so much I couldn't tell her why I was laughing so thank you for all of that